Archive

Just this morning, we finally had our app “Under the crypt” accepted by Apple. It’s available for $0.99 cents and is available for Mountain Lion (64 Bit) or higher. It was designed with Xamarin – a .NET based cross platform app development system, – it is a port of a Phonegap app, that was previously available for Blackberry and Android on the Amazon app store. Thanks goes to to @veubeke, @UlrikeErdmann, and Tyber Zann for programming support!

If a HTTP call fails with a HTTP 500 error, and throws a WebException, you know something’s gone wrong, but sometimes the response from the server can explain more about what screwed up. I found myself writing this code over and over again, so here’s a single method that handles it;

Here’s a generic way to use a webservice to send email, and it’s been tested with Amazon SES. Proxying email like this saves exposing your own IP address to recipients, to avoid problems with your ISP, or main hosting provider.

Here’s the code;

using System.Net.Mail;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading;
using System.Web.Services;

Google play is virtually non-existent in china due to censorship rules, and Google’s exit from that market. Therefore to get downloads from china, you need to list your app on Chinese app stores. Most of which have an English version that you can navigate through. Here is a list of the top app stores in China – ordered by importance.